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"For us is just wonderful to play well against
Bulgaria, a physical team, high level skills, big block... Tonight we started a
little slow, but our block and defense was good against them, we dig a lot of
balls, the transition worked well. We played a high level Volleyball in the
third set and then the 4th set was another game: we got our points in some
critical times."

USA captain Thomas Hoff:

"Obviously we're very happy, the Bulgarians are
strong, powerful, big guys, even if they miss Konstantinov, a player who can
control the ball very good. We're playing better and better, we made some
adjustments watching the videos. Eventually we made a couple of good plays to
close the match."

Bulgarian Head Coach Martin Stoev:

"I think we played a good match despite the loss. We
lost because we had not he right choices by the setter and tactically we did
not managed to stop Stanley. I think we had our chances in the fourth
set."

Andrey Zhekov

"First of all, congratulation to USA, it was our
first loss, but USA was better then us today. We equalled results in the four
sets but they won in fifth. Hoper the next one will be better for us. We were
close to the tie break, we need more concentration for the long period in the
future."